Employer Append Statistics [Updated 2024]

Explore these key statistics to discover opportunities to enhance your data with an employer append.

Learn more about how data appends work with other data you have on your alumni and donors to ensure the highest value results.

Corporate Giving and Matching Gift Statistics Graphic

University Data:

Employee Hit Rates By Degree Program

This graph breaks down Double the Donation’s average hit rates for employer name based on the degree earned at your university.

How to Use Degree Program with Employer Append Insights

Degree program can act as a key factor in finding the right employers for your alumni list and aid your efforts to use employer information effectively.

Industry-Specific Partnerships: Knowing the fields in which your alumni work can help you form strategic partnerships with industries relevant to your most popular degrees. This can lead to sponsorship opportunities, collaborative research projects, or continuing education programs that benefit both the university and the industry.
Benchmarking and Strategic Planning: Analyzing the correlation between degrees and employment outcomes can provide valuable data for strategic planning and program improvement. Use these correllations to understand how well your university is preparing students for the workforce and how to tailor your support services.
Alumni Engagement and Events: Increase engagement by tailoring alumni events and communications to the interests and professional backgrounds of graduates. Take alumni involvement a step further with alum-student mentorship programs, connecting students in a degree program with a graduate working in a relevant industry.

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University Data:

Employer Hit Rates by Graduation Year

How to Use Graduation Year with Employer Append Insights

Get to know where your alumni of all ages work to inform matching gift strategy, project giving capacity, and more.

Smart Appending for Highest Value: It’s more likely that an employer append will be able to share employer names for more recent graduates than older graduates for a variety of reasons, including social media use, marriage, and more. Use this information to inform your append file to get the highest hit rate of quality data!
Alumni Giving Patterns: Engaged alumni who have recently been promoted or moved into new phases of their careers may have new giving capacities/departmental interests. Use this information to stay up-to-date on the giving trends and capacities of your alumni donors.
Matching Gifts: Younger donors may be more in-tune with their company’s matching gift program than your older alumni. Encourage a match from your more recent graduates and take the time to educate more established alumni of their match opportunity, especially if they work at a company with a high-impact match rate.

This graph depicts the percentage of records in a single list we may find an employer name for based on their graduation date from your university.

Wrapping Up & Further Reading

When considering receiving an employer append, make sure you understand the why of your append request and understand possible uses for the data you receive. The best kind of data is the data you can use to further your goals and foster deeper relationships with your donors and alumni.

Whether you’re collecting employer names to explore mentorship outreach, stay up-to-date on giving capacity, or pursue matching gift opportunities, use the insights above to help your team make the most of your append!

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Promoting Matching Gifts

Your donors are unlikely to know about matching gifts unless your nonprofit promotes these giving programs to them.

Check out our resources to learn how you can effectively market matching gift programs to donors via multiple channels.

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Matching Gift Companies

Many companies offer a matching gift program (65% of Fortune 500 companies do!), but some outshine the rest.

Double the Donation has compiled a list of the top 20 companies with standout matching gift programs in the United States.

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Impact of Corporate Giving

Matching gift programs are just one of the many types of corporate philanthropy initiatives that companies have.

If you’re interested in learning about the importance of corporate philanthropy, read the following article!

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Employer Append Statistics [Updated 2024]

University Data:

Employee Hit Rates By Degree Program

How to Use Degree Program with Employer Append Insights

University Data:

Employer Hit Rates by Graduation Year

How to Use Graduation Year with Employer Append Insights

Wrapping Up & Further Reading

Promoting Matching Gifts

Matching Gift Companies

Impact of Corporate Giving

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